kabaaa-‘ira – {(great (things)}, its singular is kabiirah. The words Kabiirah and ‘akbar etc
have been derived from the same word. Kabiirah
is that sin, which is great. On its contrary, little and customary mistakes
are called Sagiirah (minor sins).

It was mentioned in the previous verse that the
person, whoso would squander someone’s wealth in vanity and kill any other
person through aggression and injustice, his punishment is Hell. In this verse,
it has been induced to refrain from the sins and on holding back from the
evils, Allah Almighty has promised to forgive and pardon them, and caused them
to hope for the Heaven, so that after knowing it, every person would have to try
to refrain from the sins.

It is order of our Lord Almighty that who will
keep himself away from the great sins, as crimes relating to any person’s theft,
injustice, murder or plundering, then his little sins will be forgiven.

The religious scholars have made explanation of
this verse differently. Here one Hadith
{Saying of Messenger (grace, glory, blessings and peace of Allah Almighty be
upon him)}, described by ‘Abu Hurairah (may Allah Almighty be pleased with him)
is being presented for correct explanation. Summary of the Hadith is ‘Messenger of Allah Almighty said, “Allah Almighty has
determined sin by different parts of fornication upon the children of Adam
(peace be upon him). For example, the part of eye is ‘to see’ in the act of
adultery, the part of tongue is ‘to talk about the act of fornication, the part
of spirit is ‘wish of adultery. Actual commission of the act of fornication
depends on ‘womb and penis’ etc. If this bad act has been committed, then
entire parts have fornicated i.e. the eye, the tongue and the heart etc. If it
has not been committed, then all remaining helpers of the fornication act will
be forgiven.

In this regard, the above-mentioned verse aims
that the people, who refrain from the great sins, whether, they commit minor
mistakes, which become cause of the great sins, but these people escape from
the great sins, then they will not be questioned about their little sins, and
they will get also reward due to not committing great sins. The reason of such
reward is that they controlled their rebellious spirit and evil wishes, and they
saved themselves from the grievous mistakes.

Transliterated Holy Qur’an in Roman Script & Translated from Arabic to English by Marmaduke Pickthall, Published by Paak Company, 17-Urdu Bazar, Lahore, Lesson collected from Dars e Qur’an published By Idara Islah wa Tableegh, Lahore (translated
Urdu to English by Muhammad Sharif).